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Interactional style, elicitation strategies and language production in professional language intervention

Department of Logopedics, Phoniatrics and Audiology, Lund University, Sweden, barbro.bruce{at}med.lu.se

Kristina Hansson

Department of Logopedics, Phoniatrics and Audiology, Lund University, Sweden

Ulrika Nettelbladt

Department of Logopedics, Phoniatrics and Audiology, Lund University, Sweden

This paper explores language intervention for children with specific language impairment in Sweden. The elicitation strategies, style of interaction and language production used by speech and language pathologists (SLPs) were analyzed in two conditions, free conversation and training of grammar. In training, the grammatical targets were used significantly more often by the SLPs, but not by the children. In the free conversations the children talked more and had significantly higher mean length of utterance in words and the SLPs linked significantly more to the child's focus. The two conditions represent different, but complementary approaches to language intervention.

Key Words: language intervention • specific language impairment • elicitation strategies • style of interaction • intervention context

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Child Language Teaching and Therapy, Vol. 23, No. 3, 253-266 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0265659007080677


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